Re: Is There Anyone Has Installed Suse 10 On Ibm Thinkpad, Install on IBM ThinkPad

zinces@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Hi, all

I am a SuSE fan and I just got a new IBM T43 ThinkPad, it could be cool
if I can install SeSE 10 on it.

I have been told that IBM ThinkPad can be equipped with SeSE very well,
is it right? Does anyone who have tries this, I wanna share your
experience.

If you can give me some advice, that would be better!

Thanks a lot!


I was given a replacement IBM Thinkpad T41 laptop for my old T23 at
work...  I had a hell of a time getting the built-in Atheros wireless to
work reliably in Windows XP.  It would either hang or stop my RJ45
ethernet connection from working.  I think it was a problem with the
IBM/Lenovo software supplied.  It didn't work with the Windows XP
configuration either.  I eventually disabled it in network properties
and put in a 3Com PCMCIA card.

Then last week I got round to putting a SUSE 10.0 partition on it and it
went on really smoothly.  NTFS partition shrunk successfully. ATI 3D
graphics, sound, Ethernet and Atheros Wireless all went on 'out of the
box'.  I haven't tried the internal modem but I see IBM have a driver
for it.  I set both NICs to activate on 'Cable Connect' and I can switch
between them with no problem.  I added Packman as an installation source
and installed xine and I now have commercial DVD playback.  All the
Thinkpad Fn buttons work and Suspend to disk and RAM both work fine.
I copied over my autofs config files from the (home) server and now have
Amarok playing MP3s from my network music repository, access to my
network downloads area and also scheduled backups to the network backups
area.

SUSE 10.0 has given a far better result than my experience with Windows
XP.  I now have a complete Linux setup done in about four hours compared
to a week and a half of crashes, system restores, application
activations and re-configuraton in Windows.

JohnK
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